Or, have you been all excited for a fall raspberry harvest only to find the once perfect rubies damaged and turning sour on the canes? We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Luckily, there are a variety of options for dealing with the tiny tan flies that are emerging from somewhere in your home or garden....
We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. These compact plants have a long, impressive flowering season, first with a heavy floral display in late spring and early summer, then with a lighter rebloom in late summer if spent flowers are deadheaded. Charming, evergreen perennials, they’re also tough and hardy, with good resistance to cold, drought, heat, and humidity....
The first year that I lived in my little red Alaska home, I planted three delphiniums. And each year, I wonder if they will make it. Have they survived the winter? Did my resident moose trample them to death in the muddy throes of spring? It always amazes me when they push up new stalks through last year’s dead growth, promising brilliant blue-purple flowers to catch the sunrise. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
The edible yellow blossoms, seeds, feathery leaves, pollen, roots, and stems have long been prized for their robust, anise-like fragrance and flavor, and their usefulness as ingredients in cooking, magical potions, and traditional medicine. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Within it, there are numerous subspecies and cultivated varieties, such as common fennel, F....
For most of my gardening days, I’ve focused on outdoor plants, but when my partner opened a yoga studio that needed some lush greenery as fast as possible that could also handle low light conditions, I turned to philodendrons. We weren’t disappointed, as they grew to at least 20 feet long, with vines meandering around the art on the walls and up over the curtain rods on the other side of the room within a couple of years....
These dazzling plants – marantas, calatheas, stromanthes, and ctenanthes – have colorful, patterned leaves that lift upward in the evening, giving them their common name. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. And they do come with certain advantages: they are both non-toxic to pets and do well in lower light conditions. On the other hand, one of the very real potential disadvantages to acquiring one of these is that you may not be able to stop with just one....
Birds love it, it can thrive in difficult-to-fill spots, and it adds year-round color and texture to the garden. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Every time I catch the aroma of a cultivated juniper, I’m brought back to those lazy summer days in the mountains. I’m sure you’ll love it too. On top of their low-maintenance demeanor, they’re also just downright good-looking, especially some of the stunning cultivars that have been bred over the years....
They are incredibly resilient, can do well in low light conditions with little water, and have been known to survive long periods of neglect. If you tend to struggle with keeping houseplants alive, this may be the one for you! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s the lineup: What Are ZZ Plants?...
Referred to as the “herb of the sun” by the famous 17th century British herbalist Nicholas Culpeper, this plant will welcome visitors to the garden with its pleasant, aromatic scent and impressive stature. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. What Is Angelica? Angelica, a member of the Apiaceae family, has long been cultivated for its edible stems and roots....
It’s an attractive plant with unique characteristics. It’s tall but not too tall, has unusual flowers without being showy about it, and requires very little (if any) care during the growing season. It will undoubtedly allow you to strike up a few conversations with your neighbors who aren’t familiar with it. And with white, pink, or pastel-purple flowers, it makes a decorative addition to almost any garden. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
Their wispy, fernlike clouds of foliage and showy blossoms that seem to float ethereally above them will surely satiate the desire for summer blooms buzzing with bees and butterflies. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Come and learn all about it, including which varieties are best for the job! Here’s what you’ll find as you read on: For centuries, cosmos have been a favored addition to the garden in many parts of the world....
Hackberries do well as street trees – they can handle growing in heat and help to lower the temperature around them. Their roots grow deep and downward, so they don’t tear up sidewalks and roads. They also grow tall and do so rapidly, which means they won’t block the view for drivers and pedestrians, all while providing shade for sidewalks. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
A must-have for cooks, herbs add wonderful flavor and fragrance to cooked foods and salads. But they provide many more benefits that go beyond their use in cooking. Many release their intense fragrances in the warmth of the afternoon sun or when you brush up against their leaves. And most have enchanting, aromatic flowers that pollinators adore, and make an excellent addition to cut flower arrangements. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
I was hiking near a forested swamp and was caught off guard by something that smelled pleasant. But aren’t swamps places for fetid odors and that delicate, lingering stench of standing water? I wondered what it could be. I followed my sniffer and spotted a large patch of green-leaved plants with stalks of hanging white flowers. It took half a moment to identify what I was seeing because absorbing plant and animal ID guides was a favorite pastime when I was growing up....
I’d never grown the Cucurbits before, and I figured the vines would curl neatly around the tiny bamboo hoops and produce precious, delicate gourds. If you have ever grown pumpkins, you know how wrong this is. At first, the attractive hoops did the job just fine. The young vines grew slowly. I fastened them to the hoops with gardening ties and smiled at their gentle beauty. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
But the thorns? No thanks. If we could do without any part, that would be it, right? We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. If you’ve ever seen one of these shrubs with its thorns gloriously backlit by the sun, then you totally understand. The colorful, spiky growths make this plant stand out as an ornamental treasure, even when there isn’t a single flower to be seen....
We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s what’s to come in this article: This enchanting deciduous shrub is decorated with clusters of small white flowers in the spring, which eventually develop into bundles of tiny black or purple berries. In the wild, you will tend to find them in wet and swampy areas, often in disturbed places....
I’m no cook, but I’ve been caught nipping a tiny colorful snack off of plants I find here and there while hiking in the mountains. A surprising number of the blooms you find in gardens can also be found along the trail. Roses, strawberries, bluebells, and violas are among the tasty, colorful treats I sample – before the berries are ripe, that is. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
When a sudden infestation of mealybugs occurred on my mom’s houseplants, though, everyone knew where to put the blame: on the cuttings I’d brought home from my university’s tropical greenhouse. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Luckily, there are options available to help you decrease their numbers and minimize the success of their invasion, and we’ve got it all laid out for you below!...
You may not realize it, but you are probably already familiar with the organism that causes late blight. Phytophthora infestans was the cause of the infamous Irish potato famine of the 1840s. For over 200 years, this organism was thought to be a fungus, but it has since been reclassified. It is now referred to as an oomycete – also known as a water mold – thanks to its ability to thrive in wet conditions....
